Recent Trends

Over the past few years many trends have emarged, we are focusing on a few trends ( listed trends) that are used widely in the industry.

Cross Docking

Cross Docking is a practice where products bypass the storage activity by transferring products directly from the inbound receiving dock to the outbound or shipping dock.

Benefits of cross docking can reduce costs (Handling and holding costs) and to improve customer service by reducing lead time.

Cross docking should be considered as an option when meeting two or more of the following criteria:
- Inventory destination is know when received
- Customer is ready to receive inventory immediately
- Inventory arrives pre-labelled
- Some inventory is time sensitive


Just in Time (JIT)

JIT is a replenishment system of scheduling inbound deliveries to arrive just in time to replenish the work stations.

This philosophy has an impact on reducing to on hand inventory but focus on receiving and shipping operations rather than the traditional picking methods that will take up time.


New Technology

The various technology used in shipping and receiving operations are computer technology, Bar-Code scanning, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The using of computer will increase speed in processing documents, improve product flow information, accurate transaction and accurate customer and product identification.

In addition, the use of Bar-Code scanning ensures that the date and information of the items are transfer automatically, but the use of (RFID) will faster as it could read multiple products at a time compare to the Bar-Code scanning.